Past Events

Seminar: Cichlid fishes as a model for evolution of altruism in vertebrates

2023-05-29
OIST Main Campus (C209)

We are inviting Dr. Shun Satoh from Kyoto University who calls himself as a "Fish Maniac" in his blog.For his details please check the link below. https://symphysodondiscus.wixsite.com/website-1/blank-3

Date: May 29th(Mon) 
Time: 15:00* -
Room: C209 (Center Bldg)
 *The start time has been updated as of May 19th. sorry for the inconvenience.

Zoom Link:
https://oist.zoom.us/j/94360778822?pwd=ZDlPZFY2d3luQWovcUdLZ1lvbGdpQT09
Meeting ID: 943 6077 8822
Passcode: 705537
If you have any questions, please contact egu@oist.jp.

OIST Mini Symposium "Phylogeny and Classification of Termites"

2022-11-29 to 2022-12-01
OIST Center Buiding:C210 and Online(zoom, please see below)

This mini-symposium will allow the leading researchers on termite phylogeny and evolution to present their latest results. It will help determine the gaps in our understanding, and design approaches to fill them. In particular, this mini-symposium will provide a platform for researchers to determine the necessary steps to take to create a new termite classification, that takes into account phylogenetic evidences.

Evolutionary Genomics Seminar Vol.1_Mysterious mating behavior of a subsocial wood-feeding cockroach: female and male eat their wings one another, presented by Haruka Osaki, Postdoc at Kyoto University

2022-08-05
Seminar Room B503 - Central Bldg. or online (Zoom)

Seminar by Haruka Osaki, Postdoc at Kyoto University

Date: August 5th

Time: 3pm - (30-40 mins Lecture and 10-20mins QA session)

Zoom: Meeting:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74391178937?pwd=7nClhiDi4S-7j5Hq6BTKHy0uhMrMv9.1

For questions please contact: egu@oist.jp

Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #9: Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants

2022-05-20
L4F01 or zoom (Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar)

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 9th event is presented by Dr. Xin Tong, SPDR Fellow of Cell Function Research Team at RIKEN CSRS.
Title:
Gall-forming aphids, small insects with great power: female-biased sex allocation via female competition induces novel insect gall organogenesis in plants

Timeline
15:00~15:30: seminar
15:30~16:00: questions and discussion
16:00~: mixer

Please apply from here: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #8: Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community

2022-04-15
C015 or zoom

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution. The 8th event is presented by Ryosuke Nakadai from National Institute for Environmental Studies.

Please register from the next link: https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

Title:
Individual-based temporal beta-diversity: Individual turnover and compositional shift in a community

Timeline
15:00~15:30: seminar
15:30~16:00: questions and discussion
16:00~: mixer

Abstract:
  As increasing the necessity to assess the influences of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity, the concept of beta-diversity has been extended to a temporal context and has been intensively studied in recent years. In studies of temporal beta-diversity, methodologies used in spatial beta-diversity have often been used simply. However, temporal beta-diversity often includes "the same individual" between two communities implicitly, which has not been the case with spatial communities, so it is necessary to consider the effects of individual turnover and persistence for quantifying temporal beta-diversity. I focused on both individual identity and the persistence of individuals within a temporal beta-diversity framework and developed some novel indices. In my presentation, I will explain the novel indices which I recently developed and the concepts behind them, showing examples of analysis. I would also like to discuss the prospects for community assemblages through both time and individual identity.
 


 

Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar #4

2021-12-13
L4-E1 or zoom

The seminar aims to initiate interactions between international and Japanese researchers and students in the field of Ecology and Evolution.
The 4th event is specially presented by three great speakers.

Elio Borghezan (Kyoto University) from 3pm -
Iki Murase (University of the Ryukyus) from 4pm
Marta Quitián (Tokyo Metropolitan University) from 5pm

on Dec. 13th(Fri). 

Please join us if you have time.
https://sites.google.com/view/jee-english-seminar

We’ll meet at L4-E1 or via zoom.

You can get the zoom link after registering from the following link. 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf67u80HNik6YePCyHYNENst5IVEc2Jq4xpkXbWwrU-y1W5HQ/viewform


*JEEES is created by Jamie M Kass (Economo Unit) and me to cultivate interactions between international and domestic researchers/students in ecology/evolution in Japan.

Modern Ecology and Evolution Journal Club [VENUE&TIME CHANGED]

2021-10-08
Seaside House Recreation Lounge/ Zoom
 
[VENUE AND TIME CHANGE] Please feel free to join us for the continuation of fortnightly MEEJC, this Friday, 4.30pm, Seaside House, Recreation Lounge.
 
This week we are invited to join for discussion on this recent preprint:
 
Functional repertoire convergence of distantly related eukaryotic plankton lineages revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics

Talk by Dr. Yves Roisin, Université Libre de Bruxelles

2018-11-02
Seminar Room C700, Lab 3

Seminar by Prof. Yves Roisin, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

[Seminar] Evolution of the termite 'worker' phenotype: a reinterpretation of observations & a reconsideration of hypotheses by Dr. Theodore Evans

2018-01-23
Seminar Room C700, Level C, Lab3

Dr. Theodore Evans, Associate Professor, the University of Western Australia. 

Language: English, no interpretation.

Seminar by Dr. Nathan Lo

2018-01-11
C700, Level C, Lab 3

Dr. Nathan Lo, Associate Professor , School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, will give a short talk on his research.